In this series I walk you through the process of creating a magnetic crane rig. You will learn about Spline Dynamics, Xpresso, Rigid Body Dynamics and more. http://www.cineversity.com/vidplaylist/magnetic_crane_rig

After seeing Simon Fiedler’s cool Droplelts breakdown I had to make the dynamic spiderweb he showed. I think it’s pretty close to what he did. I used spline dynamics, hair and constraints. It’s very fast and responsive in the viewport which is really great. It also led me to some cool R&D with combining spline dynamics, thinking particles and Cloth.

Just some R&D I was doing with the cloth engine and R12 dynamics. Thought I would share some of the things I found out. Scene files: Cloth & Dynamics Scene Files